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Umpqua Valley Settlers Murder Klikitat Farmers: Dick Johnson’s Family story, by Sallie Applegate Long

The story of the Dick Johnson and Old Mummy murders of 1858, were well known Klikitat settlers in that period. None less than the prominent and politically powerful Applegate Family who lived in Yoncalla, Oregon, were their freinds and neighbors and tried to help Dick and his extended family of In-laws maintain their settlement in the Umpqua Valley. Letters from Jesse Applegate in this era were…